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Gray's anatomy / Janus Films ; a production of the Independent Film Channel ; in association with BBC Films ; written and performed by Spalding Gray ; directed by Steven Soderbergh ; produced by John Hardy ; based upon the monologue by Spalding Gray and Renee Shafransky.
LIBRA BLU RAY PN2287.G73 G73 2012b disc + booklet
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Criterion collection ; 618.
- Criterion collection ; 618
- Standardized Title:
- Gray's anatomy (Motion picture)
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gray, Spalding, 1941-2004.
- Gray, Spalding.
- Actors--United States.
- Actors.
- Eye--Diseases--Alternative treatment.
- Eye.
- Mortality.
- mortality.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Dark comedy films.
- Feature films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
- Video recordings for hard of hearing people.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (79 min.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + booklet ([16] unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 16 cm)
- Edition:
- Blu-ray ed.
- Place of Publication:
- [Irvington, N.Y.] : Criterion Collection : Bait and Switch, ©2012.
- Language Note:
- English dialogue.
- System Details:
- Blu-ray format, Region A; widescreen (1.85:1) presentation; dts-HD master audio 5.1.
- Summary:
- A spellbinding adaptation of Gray's 1993 monologue of the same name in which Gray, with typical sardonic relish, chronicles his arduous journey through the diagnosis and treatment of a rare and alarming ocular condition. For the monologist, this experience occasioned a meditation on illness and mortality, medicine and metaphysics.
- Participant:
- Spalding Gray, Mike McLaughlin, Melissa Robertson, Alvin Henry.
- Credits:
- Cinematography, Elliot Davis ; music, Cliff Martinez ; editor, Susan Littenberg.
- Notes:
- Originally produced as a motion picture in 1997.
- Release date: Jun. 19, 2012.
- Special features include: new interviews with Soderbergh and cowriter, Renée Shafransky ; A personal history of the American theater, a monologue by Spalding Gray ; Swimming to the macula ; theatrical trailer ; booklet.
- Accompanying booklet features essay by film critic Amy Toubin.
- ISBN:
- 9781604655995
- 1604655992
- OCLC:
- 793851548
- Publisher Number:
- 715515093217
- CC2156BD Criterion Collection
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